Both to talk about oneself and his employer

Director of international marketing in a large French group for four years, Nathalie is propose a post abroad by his employer. She refuses. Three months later, he announced a reduction of its responsibilities. Not knowing how to respond, it will consult a career crisis, Transition more management firm. Objective: help develop a strategy for the continuation of his career. "I never imagined I would that I was going to be dismissed." "After two months of coaching, I had understood", she says today. "I explained all that is likely to happen and prepared it accordingly. Ideally, must be done upstream, to preventively, when the individual urge that its professional trajectory is in danger. "Often, however, I am speaking"curative", when the sentence is already pronounced", explains Domitille Tézé, forty-three years, former HRD in the sector of the Council which established his firm three years ago.

Communication errors

"Non-linear careers have become the standard for managers subject to the vagaries of the economic and financial conditions, and the frequent reorganizations of companies. That confirms the firm Booz Allen Hamilton study (May 2006), which reveals that the turn.

the company counts over increased by 70 in ten years. According to this study, if the number of voluntary departures remained stable during this period, the number of forced departures been multiplied by four (performance judged insufficient by shareholders in consequence of a merge...).

The interest of outside support by a consultant is to assist the framework or the officer to leave the company in good conditions. Materially first, with the negotiation of the transactional compensation, and particularly psychologically (of mourning, the reaction of relatives). "I could play down my departure and understand that I was not personally involved." Only my decision to refuse the position abroad posed problem for the company, said Nathalie. Of this finding, negotiations with the Group took place in serene manner. I understood that leave the Group was ultimately a good thing for me.

As noted by career management specialists, focusing on the physical dimension (indeed essential) and letting expression sometimes violently their resentment in public, concerned managers increasing communication errors. "In a career crisis, even if it seems very difficult at first glance, it is necessary to make the positive situation, both within and outside the company." Both to talk about oneself and his employer. "A carefully weighing floor allows to rebuild, to send positive signals to his surroundings, to ability to reposition and reboot a virtuous circle," point Domitilla Tézé.

A fast start

"Is a great risk to"Broil"or Broil its network, uttering little pine comments against his former employer, once the bad known news confirms Hervé Bommelaer, consultant in outplacement and mobility among Leroy leaders (BPI group). The world of hunting heads or recruitment is a small community and "return" can be devastating. "If efforts to manage at best his departure with his former employer is also a rapid departure from the company. "Stay as long as possible reassures, the unknown scary, but it is not very good with an environment which is more"invest"in you", continues Hervé Bommelaer. Hence the need to take advantage of its notice to observe the State of the market, determine the best way of "selling out". "The episode between two jobs must inquire into the circumstances which led to the break with his company, says coach Thierry Chavel. The essence of not replay the scene elsewhere.